Here are the other stories we're following today:
> Based on tests conducted in the second quarter of this year by Ookla, Telenor is laying claim to having the world's fastest mobile network. Press release
> Four electric co-ops in Tennessee and Alabama have picked Adtran and FiberRise to provision gigabit services to their rural markets. CED article
> VMware user group VMUG, which is a nonprofit entity, now has roughly 125,000 members worldwide. SDxCentral article
> Its business as usual for ZTE after the recent lifting of a ban that prevented the Chinese telecommunications vendor from conducting business in the U.S. Reuters article